The big board

A simple stock comparison application built on React and TypeScript with chart.js for visualization.

This app allows searching by company name or symbol and to compare stocks based on historical EPS data.

Improvements to be made

1. Add e2e tests
2. Add more comments and documentation
3. Add utility functions around chart data and REST API URLs
4. Improve error handling.
5. Improve handling around API limits issues

Getting started

This repo uses eslint for linting and React testing library for tests. Husky is used to lint and test before each commit and GitHub workflows is used for CI.

Environment

For the REST API calls to work, you'll need to create a .env file in the root of this project with the REACT_APP_API_KEY key.

REACT_APP_API_KEY=your_key

You can create an API key here.

Node version

• This app uses node v16. You can install nvm and run nvm use v16.

npm start

Runs the app in the development mode.
Open http://localhost:3000 to view it in the browser.

The page will reload if you make edits.
You will also see any lint errors in the console.

npm test

Launches the test runner in the interactive watch mode.

npm run build

Builds the app for production to the build folder.
It correctly bundles React in production mode and optimizes the build for the best performance.